Industry insiders claim a scaffolding firm with a chequered past and links to organised crime was still able to secure pivotal labour deals and promotion at the highest levels of the CFMEU.
A booming scaffolding firm that has secured significant contracts on the $550 million redevelopment of the nation’s war memorial, a major hospital, Sydney Metro and a public school has been repeatedly promoted by the CFMEU, despite a catastrophic safety record and alleged links to a bikie boss and other underworld figures.
“The offence is of the utmost objective gravity … should serve as a telling reminder that unsafe acts on a building site can and do lead to catastrophic consequences,” the judge found. “I mean, you see grown men crying, and you just think not again, not another one, not another person not going home tonight,” Greenfield toldBut this masthead can reveal Greenfield has since personally signed multiple enterprise bargaining agreements with Synergy-related companies, including with its largest successor, SSS.
In February, SSS said it was the first Australian construction company to launch operations in Saudi Arabia after Soukie lobbied the kingdom’s leaders to join the $1.5 trillion NEOM project.can also reveal Synergy has alleged organised crime links including to the slain boss of the Comanchero bikie gang, Mick Hawi, who was a silent partner in Synergy.
“It is impossible to say that Mr Hamka was in any way an impressive witness,” the judge said. “He was belligerent to the point of aggressiveness, argumentative and offensive to counsel” and was “outright facetious to the point of scurrilousness on occasions”. He said some parts of the CFMEU “behave like a crime gang” with “closed networks” that “shuns external scrutiny … ripe for corruption”.Critchlow also said previous law enforcement, policy and regulatory attempts to clean up corruption and organised crime infecting the CFMEU and some building firms had failed.
The ATO found that the payments made to GSP were then withdrawn in cash. GSP’s registered office was at Banq Accountants, and GSP’s sole director was George Said.Banq was run by accountant Gino Cassaniti , who was bankrupted in 2014 owing $1.1 million to the ATO. Cassaniti, 50, also has a conviction for kidnapping a luxury clothing buyer and attempting to force him to hand over an estimated $200,000 worth of high-end garments.George Said said he did not know what GSP projects did.
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